News & publications

Media

• Research shows scrapping inefficient taxes could yield nearly $1000 per household, VU media release, October 2022
• Slashing fuel tax proved mainly ineffective in boosting economy, VU media release, September 2022
• As the jobs summit talks skills – we predict which occupations will have shortages and surpluses in the next 2 years, The Conversation, August 2022
• Swapping stamp duty for land tax would push down house prices but push up apartment prices, new modelling finds, The Conversation, June 2022
• China’s population is about to shrink for the first time since the great famine struck 60 years ago. Here’s what it means for the world, The Conversation, May 2022
• The government’s net-zero modelling shows winners, we’ve found losers, The Conversation, November 2021
• Australia’s economy can withstand the proposed EU carbon tariff, The Conversation, April 2021
• 6 things to watch for as Australia crawls out of recession, The Conversation, December 2020
• Investing in childcare and aged care almost pays for itself, The Conversation, October 2020
• Houses outstrip wages, and could WFH lead to more urban sprawl, Radio National, August 2020
• More urban sprawl while jobs cluster, The Conversation, August 2020
• Post-COVID, less reason to cut company tax, The Conversation, July 2020
• Analysing the effect of legislated increases to employers compulsory super contributions, The Conversation, July 2020
• Take care when examining the economic impact of bushfires, The Conversation, January 2020
• How reliant is Australia on trade with China? The Conversation, August 2019

Publications

• Inefficient at Any Level: A Comparative Efficiency Argument for Complete Elimination of Property Transfer Duties and Insurance Taxes
• Oil Supply Shocks and Tax Policy Responses in Australia: Insights from a Dynamic CGE Framework
• Spatial economic dynamics and transport project appraisal
• Preparing a multi-country, sub-national CGE model: EuroTERM including Ukraine
• Forecasting labour shortages in the Australian economy
• Property Tax Reform: Implications for Housing Prices and Economic Productivity
• Adjusting Net Zero Emissions Pledges Under Global Permit Trade – Implications to Welfare and Consumption-based Emissions Pledges
• Evaluating the impact of automation in long-haul trucking using USAGE-Hwy
• Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050: What it means for the Australian Economy, Industries and Regions
• The Economic Implications for Australia of Carbon Tariffs
• Modeling the economic effects of increased drop-out rates from high school
• Estimating the Economic Impact of Large Hydropower Projects: A Dynamic Multi-regional Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
• Expanding Global Bev to enhance analysis of trade policy, COVID impacts and other wine industry issues
• Energy and Economic Implications of Carbon Neutrality in China -- A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis
• Effect of Gas Subsidies In Indonesia
• Assessing the Economy-wide Impacts of Strengthened Bank Capital Requirements in Indonesia using a Financial Computable General Equilibrium Model
• Coping with seasonality in a quarterly CGE model: COVID-19 and U.S. agriculture
• The Network of US Airports and its Effects on Employment
• Modelling the economy-wide marginal impacts due to climate change in Australian agriculture
• Computable general equilibrium simulations of the effects on the U.S. economy of reductions in beef consumption
• Should Australia be Concerned by Beijing's Trade Threats: Modelling the Economic Costs of Restrictions on Imports of Australian Coal
• The Effects of Financial Decoupling of the U.S. and China: Simulations with a Global Financial CGE Model
• The Effects on the Indian Economy of an Expansion in Financial Capital Supply
• Economic Implications of Global Energy Interconnection
• More working from home will change the shape and size of cities
• Ebook: Environmental Economics and Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
• Developing a DSGE consumption function for a CGE model
• The economic effects of the U.S.-China trade war
• Energy subsidy reform in Saudi Arabia
• Global supply chain modelling within the CGE framework
• A disaggregated CGE model for trade policy analysis
• Principle place of residence exemption in land taxation
• Superannuation and financial sector structure
• Vacation homes and regional economic development
• Comparing the impacts of 17 Australian state and federal taxes
• Expansion of Brazilian irrigated agriculture faces regional water restraints
• Population Ageing and the Impact of Later Retirement on the Pension System in China: An Applied Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis
• Constructing a 2016/17 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Uganda
• Fiscal Reform -- Aid or Hindrance: A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Analysis for Saudi Arabia
• Econometric Foundations of the Great Ratios of Economics
• The 2019-20 Australian Economic Crisis Induced by Bushfires and COVID-19 from the Perspective of Grape and Wine Sectors
• Provincial Equitable Share Allocations in South Africa
• Estimating the Regional Economic Impacts of the 2017 to 2019 Drought on NSW and the Rest of Australia